Family Forum / Pregnancy / Breastfeeding / December 2005

Last night Will went to bed at 6:30pm without his normal bedtime routine
- he had skipped a nap and was very tired.  He fell asleep being cuddled
by dad with the dummy, and I was sent out to buy take away for dinner.
I got home to see Will asleep on his playmat, and I thought, ok, ...

With the festive season upon us we've been invited to a lot of dinner
parties and the like. I love to dress up for such things and have made
an effort to buy some nice but loose fitting tops that I can wear with a
nice skirt/trousers so that I can look 'dressed up' but still be ...

My friend is due soon with her second baby.  With her first she had a
lot of problems breastfeeding.  Her baby was 6 weeks early, she had a
c-section (he was breach and after 7 hours of labour she was still
2cm), he was taken away straight away and spent time in neo-nates so

% of children who are still breastfeeding 20-23 months
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_nut_of_chi_who_are_sti_bre_20_23_mon
Rank       Country      Amount  (top to bottom)  
#1       Nepal     92      

I wondered if I could delve into your collective wisdom for some advice
please.
My DD is exculsivly BF (no solids), and is now 21 wks old.  She usually does
one very dirty nappy a day, howver for the last 6/7 days, I have had

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and have gone from a 34B to a 40DD...  I'm getting a
little frantic!  It's getting more difficult to find bras.  My milk hasn't
even come in yet!  Seriously, can I expect them to get even bigger after
baby is born?  With my first child, I didn't get anywhere ...

DD is about 6.5 weeks old.  She's never really slept much during the
day.  She seems to take 1 or 2 30 minute naps, but other times when you
can tell she's tired she won't fall asleep and likes to just cry.
Moving her around, changing posistions, etc helps a little, but once

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DH and I will spend 36 hours away from the kids next week.
DS (15 months) feeds 3-4 times a day and I've expressed enough for him for
the duration, but I'm wondering if I should take my Avent Isis with me on
our 1 night holiday (DH's work's supplier has paid for us to fly down to